Tomorrow or today, depending on when and where you are reading this. Yeap, that will do me fine, because I’m broke 
, but Buy Nothing Day has an interesting message
‘Buy Nothing Day also exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism. The developed countries - only 20% of the world population, are consuming over 80% of the earth’s natural resources, causing a disproportionate level of environmental damage and unfair distribution of wealth.’
The campaign started in North American, here is a TV spot, but there seems to be many events taking place in the U.K. I’m even considering making my own consumer monster. If you want to go the full hog, you could also go for Buy Nothing Christmas. I have to say this was more weight for me, personally I hate the buying of gifts, the pressure of advertising, the debt, and stress that it all causes; basically the true spirit of the holiday, Christian or Not, is lost. At the moment my form group is aiming to buy a cow, whilst I intend to buy at least one ethical gift for each of my family members, that will benefit someone elsewhere in the world; I’ll blog their reactions! See Oxfam Unwrapped for ideas.
Perhaps I’m being miserable, but I was taught a very important lesson by my parents at Christmas. When we opened our presents, each one still had the price on, the reason was to help us understand the cost and the hours they had to work to provide them.
Interesting thoughts for our next topic… People as Consumers…
Am I being miserable?
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Written on Fri, 24 November 2006 at 10:00 pm
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November 24th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
No! We all know what Christmas is meant to be about!
November 24th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
No! We all know what Christmas is really about.
November 26th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Well I successfully bought nothing, as I have a cold, so stayed in and watched some movies!